“The principal told me that he was fed up, that there were too many girls like that in high school. There's one, there's two, there's three, and every day it's growing…”
Student in the final year of a public high school, it is with these words that Maïssa* describes the growing number of abayas - these Islamic dresses prevalent in the Middle East - in its establishment.
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While the wearing of signs and outfits showing
"ostensibly religious affiliation"
has been prohibited since the 2004 law in public high schools, are these long dresses - but also their male counterparts, the qamis - surging there today?
The Council of Elders of Secularism, installed in 2018 by the previous Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, and the National Committee for Secular Action (Cnal) - which brings together the FCPE, a federation of parents marked on the left, the Ligue de l'enseignement and Unsa-education - converge in this direction.
They report that since February these religious outfits have multiplied around and in some…
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